Major Power Interactions with Less Developed Countries, 1959-1965 (ICPSR 5005)

Citation

Cady, Richard, Mogdis, Franz, and Tidwell, Karen. Major Power Interactions with Less Developed Countries, 1959-1965. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2010-03-17. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR05005.v2

Summary

This data collection contains information about
selected interactions between major powers, such as the United
States, the former Soviet Union, the People's Republic of
China, and Eastern European countries, and less developed
countries for the years 1959, 1961, 1963, and 1965. The
variables measuring the interactions include indicators of
economic, political, and educational influence of the major
powers on the less developed countries, such as the proportions
of exports to and imports from the major powers, economic aid
received from the major powers, the number of students from the
less developed countries enrolled in educational institutions of
the more developed countries, diplomatic recognition extended to
the major powers by the less developed countries, news services
of the major powers in the less developed countries, and the
relative geographic distance between each of the less developed
countries and the more developed countries. Also included are
variables describing characteristics of the less developed
countries, such as population and description of the Communist
Party in each country. Additional variables provide information
on the date of admission of each country to the United Nations,
the degree of freedom of the press, and Communist Party
membership.

Citation

Cady, Richard, Mogdis, Franz, and Tidwell, Karen. Major Power Interactions with Less Developed Countries, 1959-1965. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2010-03-17. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR05005.v2

Time Period(s)

Universe

A total of 89 less developed countries of the world.

Data Source

United States Bureau of Intelligence and Research
annual reports, United States Department of State Division of
Intelligence and Research research memorandum, United States
Information Agency reports on communist propaganda in Africa,
the Near East, and South Asia, UNITED NATIONS STATISTICAL
YEARBOOK, and journal articles.

Data Type(s)

Original Release Date

1984-05-03

Version Date

2010-03-17

Version History

1984-05-03 ICPSR data undergo a confidentiality review and are altered when necessary to limit the risk of disclosure. ICPSR also routinely creates ready-to-go data files along with setups in the major statistical software formats as well as standard codebooks to accompany the data. In addition to these procedures, ICPSR performed the following processing steps for this data collection:

Created variable labels and/or value labels.

2010-03-17 SAS, SPSS, and Stata setups have been added to this data collection.

Notes

Data in this collection are available only to users at ICPSR member institutions.

This study is provided by ICPSR. ICPSR provides leadership and training in data access, curation, and methods of analysis for a diverse and expanding social science research community.